Congress to contest on all 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh usually election

Senior Congress chief and Rajya Sabha MP Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday introduced that the grand outdated celebration would battle on all 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh within the upcoming Lok Sabha election.

Nonetheless, the grand outdated celebration of India has stored the doorways of a attainable alliance open saying if any secular celebration which is competent to battle the BJP and keen to go along with it (Congress), then it is going to be accommodated.

The choice has come shut on the heels of the Samajwadi Occasion and the Bahujan Samaj Occasion (BSP) saying their alliance within the politically essential state — ditching Congress. The 2 events have determined to contest on 38 seats every.

“The Congress will contest on all of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, and defeat the BJP,” celebration common secretary and UP in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad stated whereas addressing mediapersons.

Azad additionally expressed hope that the Congress celebration would double its tally of seats, which it had secured within the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.

In the course of the parliamentary elections, Congress had bagged 21 seats within the politically essential state.

To a query whether or not his celebration is not going to forge a coalition with any political celebration, Azad stated, “If any political celebration is keen to accompany the Congress, and the Congress feels that it might probably battle the BJP, then it is going to be positively accommodated.”

On Congress being disregarded of the SP-BSP alliance, the Congress common secretary stated: “We needed that Congress ought to have been part of the grand alliance (towards the BJP) in UP. However, if somebody doesn’t wish to stroll alongside, then nothing might be finished.”

When requested in regards to the post-poll alliance with the SP and BSP, Azad stated that on the nationwide stage, Congress would welcome all of the secular regional events.

Replying to a different query on SP-BSP alliance, Azad stated, “The Congress employees are by no means dissatisfied on being disregarded of the alliance. Quite the opposite, they’re saying that the celebration would have needed to contest on 25 Lok Sabha seats, however now they might be contesting on all of the 80 Lok Sabha seats of the state.”

On potentialities of an alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal, Azad stated that he wouldn’t wish to peak to the media on this situation.

(With PTI inputs)

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